How do you win this matchup as Spiteful? I would appreciate some tips since I seem to lose pretty much every game unless i get godlike rng and the taunter has crap draw. They just ramp out of control and keep an infinite wall of massive taunt minions that you can clear 3-4 times and still they come back even larger than before...
Well, from my experience playing for both sides, you just have to pressure constantly. It also depends on their draws. Obviously, taunts are annoying but they sometimes may not draw important cards. You have to keep spiteful in your hand, obviously. Remember that they only have 2 naturalizes ,spellstones and swipes so you can try to play around. Cobalt Scalebane is just too good in the matchup so if you stick him around that would be great. MCT is also a good one as you can steal his taunts once he Hadronoxes.
Not the greatest tech but it gives taunt druid a 50% chance to not get Hadronox from Witching Hour.
Only if the beast is on their side. But ye, it can work.
And as a spiteful druid - try to silence their first Hadronox if they don't insta naturalize it or their first cube. Don't waste a silence on their taunt minions. Also - as other people already pointed out - keep up the pressure, try to play as aggressive as possible, so if they don't have hadronox + naturalize once they hit 10mana they are dead.
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Not the greatest tech but it gives taunt druid a 50% chance to not get Hadronox from Witching Hour.
And as a spiteful druid - try to silence their first Hadronox if they don't insta naturalize it or their first cube. Don't waste a silence on their taunt minions. Also - as other people already pointed out - keep up the pressure, try to play as aggressive as possible, so if they don't have hadronox + naturalize once they hit 10mana they are dead.
In my experience this rarely happens since typically the taunt druid players are not stupid enough to play Hadro on board if they cant proc it instantly.
Not the greatest tech but it gives taunt druid a 50% chance to not get Hadronox from Witching Hour.
And as a spiteful druid - try to silence their first Hadronox if they don't insta naturalize it or their first cube. Don't waste a silence on their taunt minions. Also - as other people already pointed out - keep up the pressure, try to play as aggressive as possible, so if they don't have hadronox + naturalize once they hit 10mana they are dead.
In my experience this rarely happens since typically the taunt druid players are not stupid enough to play Hadro on board if they cant proc it instantly.
You also have to keep in mind that they have to draw extensively and that takes away their tempo while you should be pushing for it really hard. Especially with summoners it gets really hard for them to remove 8-8 or 7-14 off the board.
Personally i have 8-1 with spiteful against taunt druid... i think the key is have good curve and just continue to push them
The problem is I think that Spiteful has really low impact minions offensively on turn 1-4, which means that when the taunt druid gets up a 3/6 taunt, it is practically a board clear. Getting out a big minion from summoner is nice, but it can still only kill 1 taunt at a time until it eventually dies.
Is master Oakheart a must have in taunt druid or can i run-it without him?
Definitely helpful. I find the Lich King is really the key to that deck. Nothing else has enough offense to be a threat. Lots of big butts but no fists. I've seen plenty of decks chew through wave after wave of taunts. If I can't get a bigger taunt to stick, the deck runs out of steam. Also, if you never draw the win condition, you just die. There's not enough clear in the deck. I've been taken from 30 health/30 armor to dead in a few turns because once the board is clear, if you can't reload with Had, you're just done.
Oakheart helps when you just can't draw Had. You have to consider that even with an aggressive mulligan there's a good 25-30% chance he's in the last third of your deck. If you can't survive drawing through to single digits without a win condition, you're going to just lose a lot of games. It's a one-trick pony. Oakheart doubles your chances of drawing Hadronox out, so it's definitely helpful. But, you'll still have games where you just can't get anything that hits hard on the board. So I resummon a board full of 3/6s and tar creepers and stuff. Big whoop. Many current decks can plow through that in a turn, maybe two. So I resummon them all. Big whoop.
Psychic scream, see ya. Vanish, see ya. Hex on my cube, see ya. Silence on my cube, see ya. There's soooo much removal/control going on to deal with cube lock, and a lot of it works brilliantly against taunt druid. What blows my mind is how many people waste it. I've seen a shaman Hex the 3/6, seen mages waste a fireball on a Crypt Lord, seen silences wasted on hadronox himself. Why silence Hadronox? You know I've got multiple ways to bring him back. Silence the lich king. Or the cube.
How do you win this matchup as Spiteful? I would appreciate some tips since I seem to lose pretty much every game unless i get godlike rng and the taunter has crap draw. They just ramp out of control and keep an infinite wall of massive taunt minions that you can clear 3-4 times and still they come back even larger than before...
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Not the greatest tech but it gives taunt druid a 50% chance to not get Hadronox from Witching Hour.
Well, from my experience playing for both sides, you just have to pressure constantly. It also depends on their draws. Obviously, taunts are annoying but they sometimes may not draw important cards. You have to keep spiteful in your hand, obviously. Remember that they only have 2 naturalizes ,spellstones and swipes so you can try to play around. Cobalt Scalebane is just too good in the matchup so if you stick him around that would be great. MCT is also a good one as you can steal his taunts once he Hadronoxes.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw
EU Legend: S52 (ZooHeal Lock); S76 (Highlander Hunter);
Personally i have 8-1 with spiteful against taunt druid... i think the key is have good curve and just continue to push them
Yeah you're right, plus the only 2 drop is prince keleseth, so i cut some of the late game and i just put more 1 drops like dire mole
i went 15-0 with taunt druid today. from rank 5.
This deck only loses to quest rogue
Is master Oakheart a must have in taunt druid or can i run-it without him?
Taunt druid is fun and spite druid is boring and highrolly. So just don't play spiteful druid.
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